Events
TORQUAY TO TOKYO: Transitions Dance Company, based at the Laban Centre, starts an international tour in late March with performances at Portsmouth College; the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton upon...
TORQUAY TO TOKYO: Transitions Dance Company, based at the Laban Centre, starts an international tour in late March with performances at Portsmouth College; the Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton upon...
SHEFC: John (Jack) Shaw has been reappointed chairman of the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council for a further three years from June 1. SCONUL The Executive Board of the Standing Conference of...
Students and young people have been using the Internet to send messages to the world leaders gathered in Copenhagen for the World Summit for Social Development. Unicef, the United Nations Children's...
The THES is sponsoring a multimedia workshop at Mediacomm'95, the international conference on multimedia communications in Southampton on April 11-12. The workshop will be led by Joel Greenberg of...
Six higher education institutions in Edinburgh are pioneering a Scottish superhighway scheme which is in the forefront of academic telecommunications. Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Napier University,...
(Photograph) - Talk show: Jacques Santer, president of the European Commission with Al Gore, United States vice president who opened the G7 conference on the information society in Brussels....
Publicly-funded initiatives in education technology have enabled many university departments to explore interactive media for teaching and learning. But the Computers in Teaching Initiative and the...
Is all this "interactive media" still a solution looking for a problem which merely drains funding resources? David Clark argues for a complete rethink on uses of information technology. At a recent...
David Mottram asks if there is a formula for computer-assisted learning in pharmacology that works for both student and teacher. Undergraduate pharmacy degree courses encompass a wide range of...
Multimedia teaching techniques will only thrive if there is a radical change in the way courses are structured, Jonathan Darby argues. Anyone who has been observing the educational technology scene...
Computing science is failing its students and drastic measures are needed to remedy the problem, Darrell Ince argues. Most of our computing departments should be closed down and their staff dispersed...
In a high-technology alternative to the traditional "milk-round", Coventry University is showcasing its students' skills on the World Wide Web. According to careers guidance officer David Bennett,...
An 11-month investigation by West Midlands police has led to two men being charged with distributing child pornography on the Internet. The charges arise from a raid by police on the metallurgy...
Twenty-five senior educationists representing 16 countries met in London last Friday to begin work on the European Open University. The meeting, organised by the Open Learning Foundation and hosted...
The Internet Book Shop has more than 750,000 titles online, not as stated in last month's Multimedia. The World Wide Web address is: http://www.bookshop.co.uk